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I enjoy big city amenities (concerts, museums, pro sports, huge festivals) but hate the stressful, fast-paced, work-your-life-away lifestyle of most large cities. I only work because it's a necessity in life. I don't care about having a fancy job and making 6 figures. Are there any bigger cities in the U.S. That have a more laid back vibe with a good work life balance?
Jacksonville, it's vibrancy and street level activity does not equal up to it's population
Jacksonville's city population is an anomaly of it being coterminous with it's county. It's "vibrancy and street level activity" are right in line for an MSA of 1.4million people, which is a FAR better way of gauging city size. I'm not sure JAX really qualifies as a "big" city for this discussion, city population is well known as the worst possible metric for sizing up a city come on now.
Sure Jax could be considered a slow paced big city, but it's maybe a Tier 3 or Tier 4 big city. And on that level, I'm not sure it's much more slow-paced than others.
For Tier 1, in my book Chicago and Miami are more laid back than their peers.
Would Denver be considered slow pace, or not? From my observation, people here are always in a hurry for no apparent reason.
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